My Piece For Peace

It's funny the things you find...rather like googling yourself, it's one of these things that you're probably going to find something you don't like, so probably shouldn't do it. However, I was checking which sites had in the past few months linked to The Shoe Girl Diaries and found this German forum which seems to be an official thread for the discussion and criticism of fashion blogs-more or less an opportunity to bitch.

Now given that I haven't spoken, read or written German in at least 13 years, my grasp of the language isn't quite what it used to be (I was pretty fluent at one stage), so perhaps I have completely the wrong end of the stick. However I think what I have deciphered is that they generally think my shoes are "ugly"! Nice huh?
It begins with Majisha (above), saying something along the lines of, 'she has so many shoes, but never have I seen so many ugly pairs'. Hmmm.
em.kay replies with something about the challenge aspect of the blog and 'having' to do it for the that purpose. Not quite sure if she means I'm wearing ugly shoes because I have to (obviously I bought them in the first place, so why would I buy/wear something I didn't like just for the sake of the challenge?). Then she says 99% of the shoes she'd never wear and something about after so many, they all start to look the same (not sure if she's referring to my shoe collection or hers), because she then says she only buys shoes that she can wear often and will therefore go with lots of outfits (i.e. black, brown, white or grey). So maybe she's just hating on all my wonderful colour! I kinda thought I had a vast range of shoe styles and that there's something to suit everyones taste, other than me never wearing flats (simply, because I can't walk in them).
The next reply I think was referring to another link but was nasty nonetheless "one ugly shoe after another" apparently. Whoever these women are, I suppose they are entitled to their opinion. I'm sure for every girl that hates my shoes, another girl probably loves them or owns them herself, so it's no biggy. I just thought it was a rather rude and unnecessary thing for me to stumble upon, but I'm told I'm overly sensitive at times and some would argue I'm 'putting myself out there' so have to deal with it. My take on it is, if you're interested enough in fashion to be a member of a forum and write about it (and critique others), you'd think you'd have a more open mind to fashion and perhaps be more challenging in your own attire rather than wearing plain black, brown, grey or white shoes all the time. For me, fashion encompasses the whole look, literally head to toe, that's why I'm constantly changing my hair, love wearing makeup and the shoes, jewellery and accessories are all part of an outfit, not just the clothes.
I'm not really sure what the point of that forum or specific thread is. It's not like they are giving constructive criticism, they are just searching for links to share and badmouth and it's just an opportunity to pick on others that are 'different' or don't cater to their tastes and that to me is a form of bullying. Personally, I'm not taking it that seriously, but I've dealt with bullying at every stage of my life and just will not tolerate it anymore. I'm not saying everybody has to like what I like, but setting up a thread for no reason other than to criticise peoples clothing (who you don't even know), seems pointless to me. If you don't like interesting shoes, then don't go looking for shoe blogs (because I don't think you'll like what you find) and certainly don't bother to waste your time writing bad things about it. The whole world needs to learn how to be a little more accepting. Oh and before I get changed for the swimwear round, I'd like world peace too!